Black Americans Quotes
Reflections on history, memory, and contribution.
These quotes about Black Americans reflect on how history books often narrow the story to slavery or civil rights, when, as one speaker notes, "there's so much more to the story." It connects with Appreciate quotes on recognizing contribution.
I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation.
White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece together their families' pasts, don't include our non-European ancestors.
I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me.
My kids are the reason I continue to strive for something better. They know - as kids who are Muslim, Somali, black Americans - that they've always been part of a struggle and that change isn't easy.
My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and...
Appreciate Quotes
Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of...
Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for...
Muhammad Ali is my hero. Yes, he was the best boxer in the world, but he also put himself on the line. He talked when black Americans had to be quiet.
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
Art Quotes
Black Lives Matter is proving itself to seek only one end - and that is discord, alienation among Americans, rise in hate, and destruction of community bonds. The relative increase in justice afforded black Americans is of little concern, save...
As black Americans continue to be insulted and dismissed by protected white liberals, the Black Talented Tenth will continue to benefit from political donations, speaking engagements, national media presence, accolades as the official black leaders, and perpetual gigs on MSNBC...
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America.
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One quote also touches on collective memory, referencing how "12 Years a Slave" documents an experience passed down across generations. For a broader view of identity and legacy, see Being quotes.
